Motivational Quotes

Death

How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

- Bright, Grant M.

Best Quotes about Death

The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take.

Craig Volk

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.

Hazlitt, William

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Bardot, Brigitte

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Guthrie, Arlo

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

10.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Chopra, Deepak

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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles

12.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

13.

We are all dead men on leave.

Levine, Eugene

14.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Montgomery, James

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Camus, Albert

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Auden, W. H.

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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Huxley, Aldous

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When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Donleavy, J. P.

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

Hermes, Georg

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Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

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Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

28.

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Melville, Jean-Pierre

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

30.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.

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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Picabia, Francis

32.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

34.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

35.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

38.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

Mcgovern, George

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Ellis, Alice Thomas

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Canetti, Elias

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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Bright, Grant M.

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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Beaumont, Francis

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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Frost, Robert

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]

Bible

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.